You can find more information about accessibility on the dedicated Accessibility in government blog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ma_Awfn5M Today is the 2013 International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This year's theme, “Break Barriers, Open Doors: for an inclusive society and development for all”, resonates deeply with me....
This week news of an office move at GDS, as well as new developments on open standards and the launch of Go ON North East. Rewired State are holding a...
...Letwin, who is the Minister for Public Policies, probably the deepest thinker around how government works. He came over to see GDS. He had a good tour, so Identity, and...
...Leicester Pension Service notice board At the start of the day, we met with Nigel Kimpton, the Site Manager, who gave us an overview of business. He explained that all...
Over the past two weeks, the assisted digital project with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has evolved from understanding the reasons that older people are either not online at all or are only partially online, to developing ideas for …
...need to make sure that we provide some help and some support for those people who are offline, and that's Assisted Digital. What sort of people is Assisted Digital for?...
We’ve started a project with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design about how assisted digital support can meet the needs of older people. Peter Ziegler is leading the project and is a specialist in design research in older people and …
...forward digital inclusion projects, and by working with departments to build digital inclusion into their policy development; developing the evidence base on ‘what works’ in digital inclusion, and using this...
...and Tomomi Koseki represented the project Touch City, which used touch to link people who are offline (and indeed anyone) with digital services. Their concept involved using existing public infrastructure...
We know that great work is already going on inside and outside government to help people use digital services. We’re collecting examples to share as best practice and to learn from as we develop ideas for assisted digital support. We’ve …
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
